The mortal remains of 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, who was among the 20 taken hostage and killed in the gruesome terror attack in Dhaka, was on Monday brought back to India by her family for the last rites.
The cremation was held at the Shiv Murti Cremation ground near IFFCO Chowk in Gurugram’s (Gurgaon) Sector 29 on the Delhi-Gurgram expressway.
Central and state ministers were among those who paid tributes when the body arrived from Dhaka.
Union Minister of State for Power Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh, other Haryana ministers and MLAs along amongst others, paid tribute to the young girl cruelly snatched away by time.
Earlier, people paid her rich tributes at Gurugram’s DLF-1 community centre amid sombre atmosphere with relatives crying inconsolably for Tarishi.
Tarishi, a student of University of California-Berkeley, was in Dhaka on vacation. She had gone with two other friends to a cafe in the upscale Gulshan area where she was brutally killed by Islamist terrorists.
On Saturday, she was among the first victims of Dhaka’s siege to be identified. Her friends Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain were also killed in the attack.
Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi American and two Bangladeshis were killed in the terror attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on Friday night.
The Bangladesh government handed over the body of Tarishi to her relatives on Monday morning in Dhaka, following which her mortal remains were flown to Delhi.
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